Tool for use by transport workers or dockers



Feb. 10. 1925.

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Patented Feb. 10, 1925.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR EDWARD HILL AND DANIEL LEWIS, OF EAST HAM, ENGLAND.

TOOL FOR USE BY TRANSEORT WORKERS OR DOCKEBS.

Application filed Octob r 17, 923. Serial No. 668,987.

To all whom it may concern: I Be it known that we, ARTHUR EDWARD HILL, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 106 Keppel Road. East Ham, Essex, England, and DANIEL LnWIs, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 180a, Keppel Road, East Ham, Essex, England, have invented a new and useful Tool for Use by Transport Workers or Dockers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a tool for use by transport workers or dockers to replace the usual dockers hook when handling bag, bale or light case work.

According to the invention we provide a metal plate or stock studded on one, or its front surface, with a series of short clawlike pins designed, when the said plate is laid with the said surface against the skin or cover of the bale, or the like to be handled, to engage or enter the said skin or cover to obtain a grip thereon, the said plate or stock being provided with a suitable haudle for manipulative purposes.

In a suitable arran ement for carrying out the invention the p ate or stock is made of elliptical form, with the surface carrying the claws slightly concave or convex, the said claws being in the form of pins riveted or screwed into the said plate at right angles thereto and having tapered points which are slightly bent over towards one end of the said plate to produce the claw-like forma tion. The manipulating handle is advantageously in the form of a rod extending in the direction of the bent-over points of the claws, and along the major axis of the plate or stock to the back of which it is riveted or screwed or forged or with which it is cast integral, and is provided at the outer end with a T-handle or other handle of wood or other suitable material. The said rod is also conveniently cranked or bent so as to extend above the plane of the surface of the plate or stock carrying the claw-pins.

The pins, instead of being at right angles to the stock can be inclined forwardly, thereby dispensing with the necessity of bending the points thereof and they may be forged or cast integral with the stock instead of being independent thereof and secured thereto.

To enable the invention to be fully understood we will describe it by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a tool for use by transport workers or dockers, constructed in accordance with the invention and Figure 2 is a side view thereof.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-3, Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a side view illustrating a modification of the tool.

Figure 5 is a section on the line 5--5, Figure 4, and 7 Figures 6 and 7 are side views illustrating further modifications of the tool.

a is the metal plate or stock and Z), Z) are the short claw-like pins with which its front surface a is studded and which are designed, when the said plate a is laid against the skin or cover of a bale or the like to be moved or handled, to engage or enter the said skin or cover to obtain a grip thereon.

c is the handle attached to the plate a to enable it to be engaged with the bale or the like.

In the drawing, the plate 0; is shown as being of elliptical form, and Figures 1 to 3 and 6 illustrate the construction wherein the face a is concave, whilst Figures 4, 5 and 7 illustrate the construction wherein the said face a is convex.

The pins 7) are made with taper points and in the constructions illustrated in Figures 1 to 5, the said pins are screwed or riveted to the plate a at right angles thereto and have their points bent towards one end of the said plate. Figures (iand 7 show the construction where the pins 7) are fixed in the plate a at a common inclination so that their points do not require bend ing. As hereinbefore described the pins 6 may be forged or cast integral with the plate a instead of being independent thereof and secured thereto as above described.

The handle 0 is shown in the form of a cross-piece of wood or the like having a stem or rod 41 extending along the major axis of the plate a in the direction of the points of the pins 6, to the back of which plate it is secured by riveting at 6. Or, the stem d may be screwed to the plate a, or cast integral therewith. Moreover, the said rod or stem (Z is also conveniently cranked or bent so that the handle 0 is brought above the plane of the face of the plate a beyond which the pins 6 project.

It is to be noted that in using our improved device the pins or points need only to be laid in contact with a bag or bale, as

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the pull on the handle Will cause all the inclined points in contact With the bag or bale to draw into and embed themselves therein. The greater the pulling strain on the tool the more lirr nly the points Will embed themselves. There is no tendency for the points to tear a ba or bale, or to slip with respect to it, and so lose hold. On the contrary the hold becomes better so long as the device is engaged. Again the pins being absolutely rigid and unyielding each lifts its portion of the load, and the lifting strain is thus distributed to a number of points on the bag or bale and there is no tendency for any pin to tearthe bag'or bale by reason of too great strain being applied to it.

We claim:

A tool for use by transport Workers or dockers comprising a plate or stock provided on its face with a plurality'vot rigid unyielding claw-like pins projecting from the face of the plate, and rigidly connected tl1erewith,- the 'projecting persons of said pinsbeingrdisposed angularly to the face of the plate and eit ending in substantially the same direction, and an operating handle secured to said plate, and being inclined forwardly of the plane of the face thereof and extending in substantially" the same directionas said pins, Wlierebyfsaid pins when engaging a box ba le orbag tend to become embedded therein at difierent -points when lifting force is applied to the handle and simultaneously distribute they stra i n a plurality of points on the bokbag: or bale.

UR EDWARD HILB: DANIEL LEWIS. I 

